The phrase "actual relief" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a genuine or real sense of alleviation or comfort from a problem or distress.
Example: "After months of stress, finally receiving the job offer brought me actual relief."
Alternatives: "genuine relief" or "real relief".
The paint is layered on so thick that the actual relief is quite mountainous.
The small value of the purchases suggested that Cuba might be using the catastrophe to cut into in the American embargo rather than seek actual relief.
contributions of cash or provisions are invited, to help feed the hungry literati who come in on Sundays… this is not a joke; actual relief is being given". ("Turns with a Bookworm," New York Herald Tribune, March 5 , 1933.
"We're forced to go the least effective route, which is sending actual relief supplies, because of the restrictions on, and the problems associated with, sending financial relief to the Middle East," CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said.
"I have observed the intimidation and the bullying that has become endemic within the party and its supporters for all to see, and it is therefore with a sense of actual relief and optimism that I've witnessed the emergence of these brave politicians who put country before party.
I sighed with actual relief.
In Boise, Idaho, residents complained to the local Better Business Bureau about telemarketers asking for donations to the "Red Cross of America" -- not the actual global relief organization, which is called the American Red Cross.
Not only is a moratorium on the debt required for now, but actual debt relief.
Obtain a rubber balloon (deflated), some flour or sand (flour is better for actual stress relief but sand is good for playing with), a funnel, a spoon and a pencil.
And calculating the actual implied debt relief is beyond me.
"Disorders and recoveries so very much out of the common way, seemed more like the amusement of eager minds in want of employment than of actual afflictions and relief".
